Month: April 2016

Winners will receive $100,000 in cash and start-up services By Joanna Carver InfraVein, a student team that created a biomedical engineering device for finding veins, won the top prize at The University of Texas at San Antonio $100K Student Technology Venture Competition. The challenge was sponsored by the UTSA Center for Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship

Graduate Research Assistantship in Modeling and Optimization of Renewable Energy Systems at The University of Texas at San Antonio Graduate research assistantships are available to work on Mathematical Programming and Optimization of Renewable Energy Systems. The research team will build a unified computational and theoretical scheme to enable the conversion of large quantities of biomass

Registration has begun for UTSA’s Engineering Summer Camps for high school students! Click on the following links for more information. http://engineering2.utsa.edu/events/engineering-summer-camp-for-high-school-students-week-1/ http://engineering2.utsa.edu/events/engineering-summer-camp-for-high-school-students-week-2/

Samer Dessouky, associate professor in UTSA The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been named a winner in the first ever American Society of Civil Engineering’s (ASCE) Innovation Contest. His project, Hybrid Energy Harvesting and Battery-less Wireless Sensing and Monitoring System for the Next Generation Smart Transportation Infrastructures, was named the Most Innovative award

By Deborah Silliman/College of Engineering Yongcan Cao, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been appointed in the 2016 Air Force Research Lab Summer Faculty Fellowship Program at AFRL-Munitions. The SFFP offers fellowships to university faulty to conduct research at one of the Air Force research facilities in the summer. “I

UTSA has been ranked as one of the best young universities in the nation, as well as a global leader, according to the 150 Under 50 Rankings released by Times Higher Education (THE). UTSA is listed No. 4 in the United States and No. 77 internationally in the annual rankings, which assess universities less than

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